Press Release: Jacqueline E. Lawton makes Guest Appearance on The No Rules Show

On Saturday, July 13, playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton will appear alongside Rebecca Sheir (Host of WAMU’'s "Metro Connection”) and Stavros Halkias (Standup Comedian) in No Rules Theatre Company's opening night performance of The No Rules Show! This half revue, half talk show promises to be a wild and entertaining night!Different fun and fabulous guests will join host Joshua Morgan every single night in this wild and crazy madcap variety show. Grab a drink and strap in because this is going to be a one of a kind experience every single night. From stage stars to politicians you never know who might show up or what might happen. Following each performance, there will be live karaoke accompanied by Joshua Morgan, so bring your books and come on down!

Pay What You Can Preview: July 10 at 8:00PM – CASH ONLYPerformances: July 11 – 21, 2013Opening Night Party: July 13th, 8:00PMClick here to learn more and purchase tickets.

Jacqueline E. Lawtonwas named one of 30 of the nation's leading black playwrights by Arena Stage’s American Voices New Play Institute. Her plays include: Anna K; Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful;The Devil’s Sweet Water; The Hampton Years; Ira Aldridge: the African Roscius; Lions of Industry, Mothers of Invention; Love Brothers Serenade (2013 semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference), Mad Breed, and Our Man Beverly Snow. Lawton’s work has been developed and presented at the following venues: Active Cultures, Classical Theater of Harlem, Folger Shakespeare Library, theHegira, Howard University, Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival, Rorschach Theater Company, Savannah Black Heritage Festival (Armstrong Atlantic State University), Shakespeare Theatre Company, Source Theatre Festival, Theater J, and Woolly Mammoth Theater Company. She is published in Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (University of Texas Press). Ms. Lawton received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She participated in the Kennedy Center’s Playwrights’ Intensive (2002) and World Interplay (2003). She is a 2012 TCG Young Leaders of Color award recipient and a National New Play Network (NNPN) Playwright Alumna. She has been recognized as a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference and the Playwright's Center PlayLabs, and as a SheWrites Festival finalist. A member of Arena Stage's Playwright's Arena and the Dramatist Guild of America, Ms. Lawton currently resides in Washington, D.C.